Speaking of her, what has she been up to? She seems to have vanished from the news after the beginning of last year?
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According to FiveThirtyEight, Heitkamp has voted in line with President Trump’s positions 55.2% of the time.
Courtesy Wiki.
On Wednesday, President Obama unveiled a comprehensive plan to reform American gun laws and take action against the 32,000 firearm-inflicted deaths per year in the United States. His proposals ranged from stricter, universal background checks to more funding for police officers to expanding access to mental health care.
Yet a group of Senate Democrats, all of them highly rated by the National Rifle Association, are refusing to say if they support the President’s reform package. Below is a list of the Senators in question, how they’re rated by the NRA, and what they’ve said about gun law reform:
- Heidi Heitkamp, North Dakota (NRA Rating: A). In a local television appearance before President Obama’s announcement, Heitkamp accused the White House of having ulterior motives besides preventing mass killing, claiming “There isn’t any amount of gun regulation or gun executive orders that will solve the problem of identifying people who could potentially do this and making sure they get the help and their families get the help so they don’ t do this. I’ve said it all along that this is wrong headed…I think it is an agenda driven by something other than school shootings.”
Voted Yea on: Neil M. Gorsuch, of Colorado, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (PN55(4)—confirmation vote)
Heitkamp ND (D)-Yes check.svg Nomination Confirmed (54-45) on April 7, 2017
Neil M. Gorsuch, of Colorado, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States—confirmation vote.[22]
Seriously if it gets Ds elected who aren’t more trouble than they’re worth, they should say and do what they need to in their districts. I never begrudged Alison Lundergran Grimes her edging away from Obama. I doubt he did either—he could have used the help if it got her elected. Art of the possible. Arguments about purity, pfft, that’s not good political craft in my book.
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Heitkamp […] said she has often found middle ground with Trump and even agrees with his policy on issues like deregulation and fighting for “working people,” she told the Post.
She sure is willing to lie and bullshit for him. No wonder he questions her Dem allegiance.
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I am not from Hawaii. Maybe someone here is. She is not a Democrat in my book. She is an opportunist who has used the Democratic Party to advance her eventual right wing Republican career.
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I see all your replies. My point remains.
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Well, at least your bills are getting paid.
Honestly, my bills would be paid a lot easier if I didn’t spend as much time here obsessing about what’s going on politically rather than doing actual work. Another reason why I’m happy with any (D) - if all those people with dangling (D)'s take control, I can go back to working.
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Not even “pretending” – He just SAYS he’s fighting for working people, all while fighting to destroy everything that helps working people. Unless, of course, his definition of “working people” means the .1% of people working to “enslave” everyone else… *&^%$#@
I understand completely. I’ve been trying to get out and buy new socks and underwear since the GOP Florida primary.
And she also had dramatically quit the DNC in 2016 to support Bernie in the primaries. She seems all over the map.
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I do not begrudge her the support of Bernie Sanders (although I do begrudge Sanders that he joined our Party only to run for President, and after having done so is again no longer a member of our Party yet seeks to dictate positions and platform planks, not to mention the DNC Director before Perez was appointed) as much as I begrudge her the flirtation with Trump Cabinet or advisor position, and the weird trip to the Mideast in furtherance of her and Trump’s agenda. Also, I remember when she was first elected and immediately began to criticize the Party positions on several issues based upon her military experience. Military experience is important, but it does not render someone otherwise callow and wet behind the ears, competent for Cabinet level positions to a President who went to great lengths to avoid military experience.
On the bright side, if you haven’t been able to get outside, you don’t really need the socks and underwear.
My 90 year old Mama too, and she has brought over quite a few friends
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